Ground Aamli Chilli Pickle (Tamarind)

Ingredients:

500g green chillies ( minced or ground)

1 tablespoon mustard seeds (roughly ground)

1 tablespoon jeera seeds (roasted and roughly ground)

1 teaspoon turmeric powder

1 tablespoon fine salt

2 tablespoons dried crushed red chillies

2 tablespoons garlic (roughly ground)

150g Aamli (tamarind)

1 cup vinegar

½ cup oil

1 tablespoon sesame seeds

1 tablespoon sugar

2 sprigs curry leaves

1 tablespoon whole mustard seeds

METHOD:

Add ground chillies to a bowl together with the salt, turmeric powder, sugar, ground mustard and jeera and crushed dried red chillies. Toss.

Boil vinegar and aamli together until thick like a sauce. Using a sieve, strain over the chillies whilst still hot.

Add oil to pot, heat. Add whole mustard seeds, sesame seeds and curry leaves. When mustard seeds start to splatter and curry leaves turn colour, remove from stove and pour over chillies.

NOTE: Remember to press your pickle down in its bottle every day to tightly compact it as air pockets can make it spoil. This also helps all the oil to rise to the top of the bottle. Make sure your pickle has a generous layer of oil covering the top as this helps to prevent it spoiling.

After 4 to five days, it must be refrigerated….

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